Join us at SAP Labs Canada, Vancouver on Friday, May 11, 2018 for our 7th local SAP Inside Track under a theme of "Technologies Making Impacts to Businesses Now".

Expand or reconnect with your SAP network. Learn about how disruptive technologies are making impacts to large as well as small businesses. You’ll have the chance to hear from and connect with SAP customers, partners, and SAP experts on technological solutions that help businesses run better.

Event

Abstract:

Technology is disrupting the way we conduct business, live, behave and communicate to each other. It is impacting everybody's life at every stage, whether you are aware of it or not. In the business world, technology impact goes beyond company's day-to-day operations but also a factor that shapes and determines industry's future. Therefore, it is important for us to beware of what rises ahead.

SAP Inside Track Vancouver #sitVAN is a full-day "unconference" style event consisting of 5 interactive lecture sessions, technology gadgets workshop and networking. The event will deep dive into how disruptive technologies such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), Quantum Computing and Augmented Reality are making impacts to businesses in the 21st century.

If you are a SAP customer, partner, consultant, freelancer, employee or student and love learning about new technologies and their business applications, this event is just right for you.

Looking at the 10-year horizon, sports and entertainment will not be recognizable to what we know it as today. In 2028 there is a large global event happening in Los Angeles, the Summer Olympic Games. Fans and athletes alike will experience the Games in ways that we can barely conceive. The industry is undergoing some massive innovations that are paving the way for the future. Ray has a strong focus on technology applications within this industry; and will speak to how Blockchain, AI, XR, IoT, and other emerging technologies will impact the sports and entertainment industry.

In the age of AI-powered everything, renewable ("green") energy is one of the industries that will be dramatically transformed. The emergence of IoT-connected energy assets coupled with AI are already changing the economics of renewable energy. In this talk, we'll share some live examples of this change at work and the new technologies that are making it happen.

After almost ten years in the shadows, blockchain technology is suddenly exploding into mainstream consciousness faster and more completely than any technology in recent memory. Suddenly everyone from small startups to major corporations are all building business solutions that use crypto and shared ledger technology on a wide variety of platforms including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Hyperledger, Corda and numerous others. While the promise of blockchain technology is real, the challenges facing these implementors are significant. The concept of partially or fully decentralized applications drive the promise of blockchain tech, but early adopters are finding that architecting such solutions requires a different way of thinking, the technology is complicated and immature, and even old monetization models such a SaaS are breaking down. This presentation will provide some real world experiences that put the use of blockchain technology into perspective, highlight the benefits and survey some of the very real risks. At the conclusion of the talk attendees will have a better understanding of what blockchain really means for business and be better prepared to make decisions regarding the use of this very trendy technology.